Good and Evil

I've been waiting for the outrage from the Islamic world over the massacre of children in Beslan, Russia. How naive can I be?

I checked the Al-Jazeera site, but they quickly removed any reference to the atrocity. They've linked the pictures for the curious, but otherwise there's only an article on Putin vowing reforms.

Silence on Al Bawaba, while Ummah News has something on Chechnya, it's about a bus blowing up.

I even checked the propaganda site, Jihad Unspun. They say nothing . . . Are you surprised?

I was already pretty unsympathetic to the Palestinian plight since the true oppressors are their leaders. But the actions in Beslan has washed away, in blood, any remaining sympathy with anything concerning Islam. They have turned the corner.

I don't want to hear any bullshit about how a religion of Peace was hijacked by a few nut-jobs. "Mainstream" Muslims have had several years to rise up and take back their religion. They have chosen to remain silent. This universal silence implies agreement. What else can one infer? The American Muslims are even holding their national meeting this week-end and while they talk about gaining political influence in America, they are silent in their condemnation of the Islamofascists. There's even this little nugget which I read as 'poor, poor us':

"We are proud that in this society, in spite of the fact there were tremendous provocations ... the dominant spirit has been the spirit of understanding," said Syeed.

As I said, what is one to infer?

If they are scared, then their faith is false. How can they remotely believe their g_d would allow this to happen in the name of Islam?

I know the West apologists say Christians have an example of such evil with the Northern Ireland 'troubles'. I also know that all clergy, except those participating in such evil, loudly condemned the actions of BOTH sides.

What other Christian ethnic violence has been instigated by Christians. I know of the Serbian outrages, but what else? The violence in Nigeria, Sudan, Indonesia and the Philippines have all been started by Islamists. Am I wrong?

Ralph Peters of the NY Post has an excellent article on what has recently happened.

THE mass murder of children revolts the human psyche. Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to children during the Holocaust. Slaughtering the innocents violates a universal human taboo.

Or a nearly universal one. Those Muslims who preach Jihad against the West decided years ago that killing Jewish or Christian children is not only acceptable, but pleasing to their god when done by "martyrs."

And this:

If Muslim religious leaders around the world will not publicly condemn the taking of children as hostages and their subsequent slaughter, if those "men of faith" will not issue a condemnation without reservations or caveats, then no one need pretend any longer that all religions are equally sound and moral.

I was once a man of tolerance and moral equivalence. After all, who was I to judge others? Well, that's all changed. These folks are just plain evil and deserve no quarter and no pity.